Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack chess king
Unicode numberU+265A
CategoryChess
DescriptionThe Unicode character ♚, or U+265A, is known as the "Black Chess King". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a black king piece from the game of chess. It can be used in digital communications to represent the chess piece itself or metaphorically to denote power, authority, or a critical component in a strategy or plan. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity♚
HTML Entity (hex)♚
URL Escape Code%E2%99%9A
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x99 0x9A
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011001:10011010
UTF-160x265A
UTF-320x0000265A

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u265A"
CSS Code\265A
JavaScript"\u265A"
Perl\x{265A}
Python 2u"\u265A"
Python 3\u265A
Ruby\u{265A}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ♚ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9818;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\265A";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References